EU: regulation on forced labour definitively adopted

On 19 November, the Council of the European Union definitively adopted the regulation banning products derived from forced labor. The text, the result of a compromise reached with the European Parliament during the previous mandate, aims to ban the marketing of these products, such as by controlling imports according to a risk classification of products and geographical areas. The regulation, which will shortly be published in the EU Official Journal, will complement other texts that make compa